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Click the links below to view the video stories of our Cardiac Screening Evening hosted at Arcadia High School in honor of Shania Singer, age 15, that died Oct. 31, 2015 from SCA. TV3 and CBS5 aired our story. Friday, January 29, 2016.

Click on the link below for the news story in Glendale AZ on Your West Valley, Sept. 19, 2015, related to our Willow Canyon High School screening day, efforts in Peoria, plus the new direction of the Anthony Bates Foundation.Your West Valley News - September 19, 2015

Click to view the "Rally for Red" News story of Shellie Wenhold. She makes a difference in AED & CPR training needs by sharing Jonathan's story of Sudden Cardiac Arrest when he was 9 years old. - "Mother takes action after son's sudden cardiac arrest."ABC15.com - 4/15/14Mother Takes Action

Click the link to see Sharon Bates discussing the importance of Cardiac Screening in Youth & AEDs in Schools"Health2Fit.com" - 10/26/13Anthony Bates Foundation

Click the link to see our News story promoting the April 28th atDesert Heights Prep Academy - 4/23/13Simple Heart Screenings can save young lives ...Click the link to see our News story promoting ABF work in Phoenix in The Mercury “K-State family means a lot to former Wildcat mom” by Kelly McHugh - 1/6/2013Read More

"Call for better screenings for young athletes"Click the above link to see our News story promoting the April 9th atWestgate City Center Event - 4/6/11Local Phoenix 3TV News Extra

"Death of a football player spurs mom to save other student-athletes"MANHATTAN - Defensive tackle Anthony Bates had completed his workout at K-State's football weight room and was driving on Denison Avenue heading home for lunch. He never made it due to a genetic sudden cardiac arrest in 2000.Two years after her son's death, Sharon Bates, Phoenix, Ariz., founded The Anthony Bates Foundation to helpeducate parents and schools and to screen student-athletes and youths for early signs of heart problems. She recalled a conversation with head football coach Bill Snyder...

GLENDALE - A 16-year-old athlete at a Michigan high school has died after suffering a cardiac arrest from an enlarged heart. It's a sad story -- one that a valley family lived through 10 years ago. Sharon Bates lost her son, a star athlete, almost the same way. 20-year-old Anthony Bates played football and went into cardiac arrest one day. He collapsed and died.

Our Westgate City Center PSA for the April 9, 2011...Our Friends, Tom Leander (voice of the Phoenix Suns), Alexis Santos, Coordinator through Mended Little Hearts of Phoenix & Jack Miller Productions), Lynn our producer, and Sharon Bates director, created the Anthony Bates Foundation Public Service Announcement (PSA). "When a young life is lost..." This PSA will air throughout Phoenix media stations for the next month. Published Spring, 2011 Click the link to hear our Westgate City Center PSA for the April 9, 2011When a Young Life is Lost (click to hear)

Via Christi Health Employee Quarterly newletter articleFriends at Mercy Regional report in the Health Journal - "Mercy supports community screening of student athletes..." This article outlines the support over 10 years of Mercy Regional with the Anthony Bates Foundation to screen young athletes in Manhattan, KS. Published Fall, 2010

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Western Athletes Receive Life Saving Donation(Courtesy Missouri Western State University) On Sunday, September 26th the MWSU Athletic Department, Heartland Foundation, St. Joe Sports and the Anthony Bates Foundation are partnering to bring the 1st Annual Anthony Bates Foundation Cardiac Screening to the campus of Missouri Western State University. The screening is available to all Missouri Western Student-Athletes, middle school and high school athletes in the surrounding areas.Click the link to read the rest of the story, and the news video clip - St. Joe Channel News

Is It Safe for Students to Play Sports Without Heart Exams?September 18, 2010 (USA Today/WLTX) - Most teenagers think they're invincible, and that goes double for talented teenage athletes. They're young, immortal, at the top of their game, the envy of their friends, but Sharon Bates, a parent who founded the Anthony Bates Foundation after her athlete son, Anthony, died unexpectedly in 2000 and was found to have had an enlarged heart, disagrees with the arguments against mass screenings...Read the USA Today Article

Foundation offers free head screeningClick on either of the above links to view the media story fromthe local Surprise paper (yourwestvalley.com) for WillowCanyon High School FREE Cardiac Screening event ...Read ArticleMedia story from the local Tucson news channel 13 for the Salpointe Catholic High School FREE Cardiac Screening eventTUCSON, AZ (KOLD) - A free heart screening was held Saturday at Salpointe Catholic High School Organizers hope it helps save local lives.The Anthony Bates Foundation and the Carondelet Health.

Sports Illustrated Article Click the following link to view an article published in Sports Illutstrated with a bit about our accomplishments of ABF ...Read the Sports Illustrated article

Article Written by Sharon BatesClick the following link to view an article written by Sharon Bates of continued accomplishments of ABF and PHWEP Lab Digest - March 2008

Insight by Bill Snyder of ABF and Story..."Bill Snyder - They said it couldn't be done - An inside Look at the Man, the Coach and the Greatest Turnaround in College Football History" written by Mark Jansesen with Bill Snyder, 2006Read Book Excerpt

Wall Street Journal Article Kevin Helliker and Kathryn Kranhold report in the Health Journal - "Case Grows for Screening Young Athletes For Dangerous Heart Conditions..." This article is the beginning of a series of articles that will help uncover the misconceptions held by our medical and general society of apathy towards heart screening our athletes. There are large numbers (5,000 to 7,000 according to the CDC) of young people that die every year to "Sudden Cardiac Death." Published Tuesday, June 21, 2005. Click picture to view Wall Street Journal newspaper article

Arizona Republic Article Paula Boivin reports from Phoenix, AZ to all Arizona communities, for the Arizona Republic Newspaper. Kansas State University Football gets ready for another Fiesta Bowl game without Anthony Bates, #91.​

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